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When learning experience design goes wrong

Learning Pool

When you look into the theoretical underpinnings of learning experience design, it can come as something of a surprise to realize that this new practice area does not lean particularly heavily on traditional learning theory (e.g. The illusion of learning. Bloom, Gagne, etc.). External influences are also significant.

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Ten Words We Must Keep Saying About the Science of Learning (While We Still Can)

Learningtogo

You’ve done your homework, completed your analysis and aligned your plan with the goals of the business. Let’s drop all this neuroscience and learning theory stuff; it sounds like too fluffy.”. Link Your Recommendations to Business Outcomes. I don’t think you need to explain how the technology works – they won’t care.”.

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A learning experience isn’t just the content

Learning Pool

And this content obsession too often hampers our attempts to create effective learning experiences. Learning = content? We thought hard about this question when we were researching the Learning Pool white paper: Experience: Theory, Design and Supporting Technologies for an experience-based Learning Culture.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

If you’re only ticket to getting resources is to ride the hype wave of “generational learning styles&# than OK. Know the learning theories behind your craft damn it! I mean really saying, “Janet, you’re ‘old’ (46), you go take that self-paced e-learning course where you just click the next button. de Kort, L.

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What type of innovation is the Learning Experience Platform?

Learning Pool

Greg Satell, writing in the Harvard Business Review, identified 4 distinctly different types of innovation. So where does an innovation like the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) sit within his matrix? Read the white paper now. The post What type of innovation is the Learning Experience Platform?

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4 reasons why ‘experience’ is the focus in learning now

Learning Pool

Because when you look at workplace learning through a long lens, and think how the world has changed around us since we first started launching online courses from learning management systems in the late 1990s, you quickly realise how massive the scope of changes has been since then. Learning Theory. Employment.

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Free L&D webinars for March 2018

Limestone Learning

But organizations that appreciate and recognize their employees—not just for blockbuster achievements but for meaningful efforts and results—get better business results than organizations that don’t, according to Brandon Hall Group research. How these principles can and should be applied to learning operations. David Sturt, EVP of O.C.

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